OMG! Ubuntu! reports
The arrival of the Linux Kernel 4.12 at the weekend brought a boat load of big changes (including two I/O schedulers) but do you know how big it is?
Well, it's easy to see in this chart shared by kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman which details exactly how big the release is. graphic
"Linux 4.12 is big, really big, like bigger than you thought big", [Greg] says in an update on his Google+ profile.
It took 63 days to create Linux 4.12, during which a total of 14,570 commits were made across 59,806 files.
With 24,170,860 [...] lines of code in the Linux kernel 4.12, that works out at a boggling 795.58 lines of code added per hour.
Linus Torvalds commented on the size of the latest stable release in his mailing list post to announce the release, saying:
"As mentioned over the various rc announcements, 4.12 is one of the bigger releases historically, and I think only 4.9 ends up having had more commits [...] 4.12 is just plain big."
(Score: 1) by toddestan on Saturday July 08 2017, @10:56PM
Just so you know, 386 support was dropped a few years ago. You might want to consider upgrading to that 486.